Hermes Hestia Center for Living Astrologies
Experiential Astrology Practitioner Program

Application for 2025-2027 Cohort

Please Read The Note to Applicants in Full Before Filling Out This Form

Note to Applicants

Thank you so much for your interest in the practitioner program and in participatory, imaginative, relational, embodied astrologies.

The application to this program is intended to ensure you meet the baseline requirements of the program and as an opening to a conversation together. In this way it is more akin to introducing yourself than ‘presenting’ yourself and we encourage you to be thoughtful but conversational versus ‘admissions essay’-style. Most likely if you are applying you know or can learn from online sources about our program and our work as well as some about the instructor’s background. This is a chance to share to share a part of the same about yourself and also to confirm that you meet (or have a plan to meet) the baseline qualifications for entering the program.

We use a ‘rolling’ admissions process. Applications are dated as they are received and reviewed in that order. If spots remain at the time of processing your application, or open up if and when you are waitlisted, assuming that you meet the baseline criteria we will set up an interview to assess fit for the program and for the specific cohort at that time.

You may have more or less to share in response to different questions. We will have people in the program with a wide variety and extent of experiences and knowledge. This is exactly what happens in most experiential astrology we offer in the world and it is one of the most beautiful aspects of the work: each person coming from different life experience and background, different kinds and ways of knowing, able to engage astrological symbolism in ways specific to their experience, situations, and webs of relations. As long as you have met the baseline requirements and have completed the application correctly while spots remain in the program, you will be offered an interview, so you do not need to cover everything in your application.

Jason

p.s. — We strongly suggest writing out your answers to the form in another application such as Word, and then copying and pasting your answers into the form, rather than writing into the form directly and possibly losing your work if something goes wrong.

Application

Name

First Name

Last Name

Where You Are Coming From

Please share a bit about your journey with astrology, the shape of your life and work now, your interests and passions around sharing experiential astrology, your motivations and intentions for joining the practitioner program.

Astrological Orientations

Please share your primary astrological orientations (such as archetypal, psychological, mythopoetic, Traditional, Hellenistic, Uranian, Evolutionary). A single one or a simple list is fine.

Please click to confirm that in at least one of the astrological orientations/cosmologies above you have at least intermediate technical knowledge in: Planets; Signs; Houses; Aspects; Cycles and Timing

Astrological Study

Please share the primary sources of your knowledge of astrology, including formal and informal study, teachers, inspirations, and experiences. The ones that feel most meaningful to you at this time. A simple list is fine.

Pre-Requisite Courses

Please share which courses you've taken or will take to satisfy the 40 hours of experiential coursework. Please see the program description for requirements. (With instructor permission it is possible to complete 20 of the hours prior to entry and 20 in the first six months of the program.) A simple list is fine.

Life Experience Relevant to Practicing Experiential Astrology

Please share experiences and relationships that you feel relevant to your practice of experiential astrology, such as: work as an astrologer; one-to-one work in roles involving healing, education, self-expression such as counseling, coaching, mentoring, divination, or spiritual guidance with or without astrology; group facilitation such as teaching, ceremony and ritual, leadership and management, creative collaboration with or without astrology; and study or work in fields you find relevant such as mythology, psychology, education/pedagogy, visual and expressive arts, music, dance and theatre, somatics, medicine, religion, ecology, or any field you find relevant

Support, Joy, and Resourcing

It's very important to have both an ecosystem of support in our lives as well as internal resourcing skills when participating in experiential education and also when practicing experiential work with others. This allows us to integrate what we are learning in a meaningful and metabolizable way, and supports growth personally and professionally. Who and what are your allies and resources, and sources of joy and pleasure and connection, and what are your own resourcing practices and skills as you begin our program?

Imagining your Practice

Please share with us a bit about your desires, images, fantasies, plans, of your practice of experiential astrology. Such as: who you can imagine working with; intentions and purposes of your practice; what forms and shapes it might take. Give yourself freedom to dream this part with no expectation or obligation. Give yourself permission to speak in terms of textures, feelings, sensations, pictures; it does not have to be a linear description though it can be!

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